Harry Mulisch is considered to be one of the Big Three of Dutch authors after the second world war. However, Twee Vrouwen (Two Women), a book that was distributed freely by all Dutch libraries during Nederland Leest is the only one of his books I've read so far. It follows the love story of two women, as the name suggested. I was a bit afraid before starting that I would hate it (I'm not that big on Dutch literature) but it was okay. Nothing spectacular though.

'Nederland leest' (which roughly translates as The Netherlands is reading) is a collective where one book each year is given freely to all members of a library in the Netherlands to promote reading. This book was part of this initiative back in 2007, but I got it a few years later in Dutch class.

It deals with a teacher in a secondary school, who struggles with some issues, some of which are still very real today. I was positively surprised!

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